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- tutrd Stat-et f SAMUEL ARNOLD, QF SILVER SPRINGS, TENNESSEE.

Letters Patent No. 104,406, dated Jane 21, 1870.

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IMPROVED ANIMAL-TRAP.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same.

Tol all whom `it may concern Be it known that I, `SAMUEL ARNOLD, of Silver Springs, in the county of Wilson and State of Teunessee, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Animalflraps; and I do herebydeclare that-the lfollowing is a full, clear, and exact `description thereof',

which will enable others skilled in the art to make l and use the'same, reference heilig had tothe accomrpanying drawing forming part of this specification.

'lhis invention relatesto'anew and useful improve- @nient in traps for catching rats or `other animals, birds, or shes,'and consists in the combinationv of aparts arranged to operate as hereinafter more fullyV l described In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is a vertical section ofthe trap, on the lineart of tig. 2.

Figure 2 is a vertical section, through the linely y Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding i A is a platform or bed-plate,`upon which the cage closes.

B is thecage, made of any suitable material or maiterials, either open, as representedin the'drawing, or

i with closed sides, or with sides partially closed, and in u any form. f l C isa post or pillar, Viirmly attached to the hedplate A.

The cage is made to move up and down on this pil- `lar, and is governed in its position by it, so that it rises and falls on the same vertical line.

D is thepan or tripping-platform of the trap. E is a pulley, placed in the recess in the pillar, near i the bed-plate.

. `In theperiphery of this pulley `are four, more or less, pins or wires, F, one oi' which pins is made to catch under aplate, G, ontopof the pan D, when the`V trap is set, as seen 'in lig. 1.

The pan is pivoted to the pillar, as seen at H.' I represents the `lbait, attached tothe wires on the `stand J. i K is a cord, by means of which thc cage issusl pended. u One end of this cordis attached to the pulleylhf around which pulley a turn or two is taken, and the l cord is then carried up in a groovefin one side of the pillar, and over and around the pulley L, and from L down to thetop of the cage.

M is a guide-pulley for throwing the cord clear ofv the pillar.

The cord 4is attached t0 the ca'ge at the point N.

0 is a pulley on outer end of the shaft of the pul-` ley L, to which the cord P 'is'attached Ihe cage is raised for setting the trap by means of this cord, as it will be seen that, in raising the cage,

the ypulley E is revolved, and one of the wires F is brought into position for engaging with the plate G, vas seen in fig. 1, the pan .D being raised for the purpose by means of a wire,'Ii.

S is a stop-hook, to prevent the pan from being raised too high.

By this arrangement the suspension of the cage`depends upon the contact of the wire F with the plate G, and that any weight on the pan D, or any force exerted to pull the bait I from the wires, will depress the outer` end of the pan and spring the trap. IWhen this is don'e the cage drops to the bed-plate by its own gravity, and secures the animal or game.

By means of the wires F in the pulley E, the cage may be raised more or less, as may be desired.

This trap may be used under water, for taking fish, with some slight modications in its construction to adapt it to that purpose.

On one side of the cage is an. entrance for rats or other animals. This entrance is protected or closed by a-fall,='l, as seen 4in iig. 2, which is pivoted at the point u, so that its `innerend (with sharp wire teeth) will raise and admit the animal, but; will not Vallow h im to escape.

This arrangement adapts the trap for use when the cage is down, and after the trap has been sprung'.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is;

Clhe pulleys E and L, pan D, wires F, plate G', and cord K, arranged and operating in-combination with the cage B, substantially as and for the purposes described. 4 SAMUEL ARNOLD. I

,Witnessesz JAS. M. EAGAN,

H. S. WHERRY. 

